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Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras

The Villa-Lobos centenary year has gots off to an early start with six of the nine Bachianas Brasileiras he wrote...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 2/1987

Russian Orchestral Works

For all the contrasting characters of the two conductors represented here, this record is from the gentler aspects of Russian...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/1997

Scarlatti La Giuditta

Alessandro Scarlatti composed two oratorios about the Hebrew widow Judith’s assassination of the Assyrian warrior Holofernes. An elaborate version written...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2009

Donizetti Linda di Chamounix

Given a choice between a two-disc set at medium price and three discs at full, one sincerely hopes to prefer...

Reviewed in issue 9/1994

Gates - Pieces for Wind and Piano

Philip Gates (b 1963) was a Music Scholar at Millfield, read Music at Queen's College, Oxford, but privately (and perceptively)...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 4/2000

Flaherty Dessa Rose

Dessa Rose, adapted from the novel by Sherley Anne Williams, returns writer Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty to similar...

Reviewed by jsnelson in issue: 9/2006

Trio Mediæval

The framework for this disc is a Mass by Leonel Power (c1370-1445), an approximate contemporary of John Dunstable. The Kyrie,...

Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 6/2004

Copland Chamber Works

Having greatly enjoyed Anne Akiko Meyers’s and Andre-Michel Schub’s recent RCA account of Copland’s eloquent Violin Sonata (1942-3), I’m not...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/1996

Tears, Idle Tears

When Tennyson referred to his friend Edward Lear it was as ''Mr Lear, the painter'', and it was through Robert...

Reviewed in issue 5/1985

Bach (6) Brandenburg Concertos

How quickly our ears have become attuned to the pitch, gestures, speeds and textures of the “period” revolution. Even when...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 5/2010

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